It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks… — Weegee Copy Share Image
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless. — Catherine Keener Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey Copy Share Image
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.… — Brassai Copy Share Image
